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Göran Krampe

Cleaning SM accounts

Hi!

On a more serious note - we have collectively managed to register a lot
of "crap accounts" in SM. I am thinking about doing some kind of sweep.

First of all - there seems to be lots of bogus initials (hey, even lots
of accounts with blank initials!). Secondly, quite a lot of obviously
bogus accounts.

After that we should probably set a standard policy for how dev initials
are selected (only alpha, no spaces, case? length? etc).

And finally we probably need to rethink how people get their accounts.
Just letting people register willy-nilly is probably not so good. Nor is
the current approach of creating a "real" account before the person has
bounced via email and verified himself that way. But frankly, I am
unsure if we just want to rely on an email address anymore. Should we
"hand out" accounts instead?

regards, Göran

Giovanni Corriga

Re: Cleaning SM accounts

Il giorno mar, 10/10/2006 alle 09.25 +0200, [hidden email] ha scritto:
> And finally we probably need to rethink how people get their accounts.
> Just letting people register willy-nilly is probably not so good. Nor is
> the current approach of creating a "real" account before the person has
> bounced via email and verified himself that way. But frankly, I am
> unsure if we just want to rely on an email address anymore. Should we
> "hand out" accounts instead?

Integration with Squeak People could be a good idea: you could let only
those with at least an 'apprendice" certification access be able to get
an account on SM.

Giovanni

stephane ducasse-2

Re: Cleaning SM accounts

In reply to this post by Göran Krampe

Please clean. This is always cool.

When you browse SqueakMap the message that the system sent to me is that
there is nearly none of the packages that is robust.
I would change the text of the package level description....
People are afraid to use software that claim to be nearly broken.

Stef
On 10 oct. 06, at 09:25, [hidden email] wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On a more serious note - we have collectively managed to register a
> lot
> of "crap accounts" in SM. I am thinking about doing some kind of
> sweep.
>
> First of all - there seems to be lots of bogus initials (hey, even
> lots
> of accounts with blank initials!). Secondly, quite a lot of obviously
> bogus accounts.
>
> After that we should probably set a standard policy for how dev
> initials
> are selected (only alpha, no spaces, case? length? etc).
>
> And finally we probably need to rethink how people get their accounts.
> Just letting people register willy-nilly is probably not so good.
> Nor is
> the current approach of creating a "real" account before the person
> has
> bounced via email and verified himself that way. But frankly, I am
> unsure if we just want to rely on an email address anymore. Should we
> "hand out" accounts instead?
>
> regards, Göran
>